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Apr 10

Judge lashes child gender-medicine experts in blow for peak clinic!

The mother, who wants to harm her child with puberty blockers, has been stripped of custody!

One of Australia's foremost child gender medicine experts has been ruled to have misled the Family Court when giving evidence to support a mother who wished to prescribe her child puberty blockers, in an astonishing judgment that calls into question the integrity of one of the nation's peak gender clinics.

Justice Andrew Strum's extraordinary judgment, which stripped the mother of custody and effectively prevented the child from accessing treatment, criticised the approach of hospitals to children questioning their gender, saying the decision to “affirm unreservedly” any child that raises concerns over their gender is "oddly binary".

He also found the gender clinic that treated the 12-year-old failed to formally give a gender dysphoria diagnosis until the court proceedings had commenced, despite having treated the child since they were six.

The case marks the first time a sitting judge has blown a hole in the country's gender-affirming treatment of care guidelines.
While Justice Strum does not comment generally on the gender-affirming care model adopted by the gender clinic at the child's hospital, the judgment raises big questions regarding the treatment of gender-incongruent children.

The matter centred on the biologically male child whose mother believes is gender dysphoric and should be prescribed puberty blockers, but whose father wanted to hold off on treatment and "let the child be the child".

In handing down his judgment, Justice Strum sided with the father who did not wish to "pigeonhole" his child, and decided
"all options" in the child's life should be open.

"This is a case about a child, and a relatively young one at that; not one about the cause of transgender people," Justice Strum wrote.

“As this child grows, develops and matures, and explores and experiences life, the child might, with the related benefits of the passage of time and the acquisition of balanced understanding, come to identify as a transgender female and might elect to undergo some form of medical treatment, to affirm and/or align with that identity. But, similarly, with those benefits, the child might not do so, and for a variety of reasons.

"At this stage in the child's life, all options should be left open, without any unacceptable risk of harm to the child."

In his decision, Justice Strum declared gender dysphoria was not "immutable" but could be influenced by external factors, placing him at odds with the Australian Standards of Care, which back a gender-affirming treatment model.

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Apr 4

Right now in Australia, a seminal free-speech battle is being fought that proves censorship regimes are no longer constrained by geography.

At the heart of this case is Billboard Chris, a Canadian father who publicly advocates against gender ideology. 🧵

Billboard Chris (real name Chris Elston) has gained international attention for wearing a sandwich board, stating ‘Children cannot consent to puberty blockers’, and striking up conversations with members of the public about trans ideology. Elston has now been forced to travel to Australia to defend his right to post what he likes and have it be seen by his Australian followers on the American-owned social-media platform, X.

Last February, Elston shared an article from the Daily Mail on X about the appointment of Australian trans activist Teddy Cook to a World Health Organisation ‘panel of experts’ on transgender policy. Along with posting the article, titled ‘Kinky secrets of UN trans expert REVEALED’, Elston criticised Cook’s agenda and supposed expertise.

The post drew a complaint from Cook to Australia’s ‘eSafety commissioner’, which demanded its removal. While X initially resisted, it eventually ‘geoblocked’ the content in Australia – so Australians, at least, couldn’t see it. Now, a legal battle for free speech is being waged Down Under, with both X and Chris challenging the censorship order. With the support of ADF International and the Australian Human Rights Law Alliance, Elston is arguing that the eSafety commissioner violated his right to peacefully share his beliefs.

Elston landed in Australia last week, ahead of his five-day hearing this week. To make matters worse, when he ventured out on to the streets of Brisbane with his trademark billboard, intending to speak with the public, he was forcibly moved on by police and almost arrested.

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Mar 31

Within 24 hours of his arrival in Brisbane, Elston was slapped with a $806 fine for ‘obstructing and unreasonably disturbing a person in the mall’, despite video evidence to the contrary.

He was then forcibly removed by police for standing in the public open-air mall where he had been wearing one of his famous billboards with a message: ‘Children cannot consent to puberty blockers.’

Ironically, Queensland is the one state where the government has committed to investigate the evidence underpinning the use of puberty blockers for gender-distressed children. 🧵

I doubt any sane person has heard or read the phrase ‘her penis’ without rolling their eyes. For female victims of sexual crimes, the phrase can inflict enormous trauma. For a young person learning biology, it is a confusing concept that requires an explanation of ‘gender theory’, which has no scientific basis. But while the term may seem comical, it is no laughing matter for women and girls whose dignity, privacy, and safety are being compromised by the unwanted presence of males in female-only spaces.

Another insidious aspect of gender ideology is its irreversible harm to young people. Becoming ‘trans’ doesn’t simply involve a change of clothes or a new haircut – the consequences, particularly for vulnerable young people, involve irreversible surgeries and harmful drugs that impact physical health and brain development, as well as harmful side effects, including stunted growth, infertility, and cancer.

Legislation banning ‘conversion practices’, including in relation to ‘gender identity’, has passed in nearly every state in Australia. This means that in most places, the only legal way to treat gender dysphoria or distress is with the ‘gender affirmation’ model. This involves unreservedly ‘affirming’ a person’s subjective ‘gender identity’, including with the drugs, hormones, and surgeries this entails.

With increased government powers to censor public discourse, particularly online, and stricter anti-vilification and anti-discrimination laws, doctors, parents, advocates, and members of the public who express concern face increasing risks of legal action.

This is exemplified by the arrival of Canadian father and children’s rights advocate Chris Elston, better known as Billboard Chris. Chris is in Australia this week to challenge eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant’s online censorship at the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal.

Within 24 hours of his arrival in Brisbane, Elston was slapped with a $806 fine for ‘obstructing and unreasonably disturbing a person in the mall’, despite video evidence to the contrary. He was then forcibly removed by police for standing in the public open-air mall where he had been wearing one of his famous billboards with a message: ‘Children cannot consent to puberty blockers.’ Ironically, Queensland is the one state where the government has committed to investigate the evidence underpinning the use of puberty blockers for gender-distressed children.

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Mar 17

BREAKING: Canadian Prime Minister @MarkJCarney’s daughter went to the UK’s infamous gender clinic, the Tavistock, when she was a child.

In this essay discovered by True North News, Sasha Carney (formerly Sophia) writes of her visits to the Tavistock.

She also rails against ‘transphobes,’ and tells of her childhood inspiration for identifying as transmasculine — a ‘boygirl’ identity encouraged by Enid Blyton books that her mother starting buying her.

“My teenage years existed in close proximity to this TERF-driven scrutiny, which was fixated on identifying how ‘authentically trans’ people like me really were.

“In 2013, shortly after I chopped off all my hair into a deeply regrettable floppy Justin Bieber cut, I moved to London, the land of Enid Blyton murder mysteries. A block from my new house was the Tavistock & Portman NHS Foundation Trust, an imposing grey building which contained the country's only child and adolescent ‘gender identity clinic.’

“I watched as my friend, after a year of weekly appointments trying desperately to get an official diagnosis of gender dysphoria, was denied the diagnosis, and with it any hope of top surgery because they sometimes wore skirts.

“I watched organisations with names like
@Transgendertrd refer to trans Tavistock patients as ‘experimental subjects’who didn't know what was best for them.

“I watched as my school's former principal told a national news outlet that trans students like me and many of my close friends were c*s women who were only coming out to ‘cause turbulence’ and ‘adhere to anything a bit radical.’

“I watched all this happen, and I quietly stopped wearing underwire bras, and wore baggier clothes, and I felt a fierce surge of jealousy every time I walked into the Tavistock for therapy and saw patients turn left, towards the medical spaces I didn't feel ‘trans enough’ to enter.”

Did Liberal leader Mark Carney approve of these visits to the Tavistock, the home of the UK’s childhood sex changes?

Full essay text in thread, below. 👇🏼

“When I was in elementary school, my mother started buying me Enid Blyton books. The British series weren't so much novels as they were morality tales, with the same stock characters recycled over and over to deter impressionable little British lasses from the seven deadly sins (gluttony, sloth, envy, wrath, believing in yourself, stealing sweets from the penny shop, and lying to your mum about when you'd be home for tea). One stock character in particular always fascinated me - the rambunctious, uncontainable boygirl.

“The boygirl is as complex as she is simple. She is White and wealthy, with a tangle of dark hair cut short or tied back - her pet peeve is having any of it fall into her eyes. She has several brothers who taught her how to ride horses or climb trees.

“She has little-to-no interest in boys, except when she expresses her desire to be one. And crucially, she has an extravagantly feminine name (Georgina, Josephine, or Wilhelmina), which she adamantly shortens to George, Jo, or Bill.

“In hindsight, her queerness is undeniable, almost textual. I'm tempted to believe that it's the very thing that drew me to her as I sat, not quite a tomboy, yet certainly not a "real girl," long hair pulled back in a snarled ponytail but still giving into my family's insistence that I wear dresses to church. The boygirl was both everything I was a little bit in love with and everything I didn't have the guts to be.

“Of course, at the time I had no way of knowing that Bills, Jos, and Georges existed outside Enid Blyton's imagination, that the world was full near to the brim with boygirls and girlboys, every possible gender I could imagine, and some I couldn't.

“I also didn't know that transgender children were becoming an increasingly visible demographic at the very moment I was becoming one, or that visibility can come at a hefty price.”

“In Histories of the Transgender Child, trans of color critic Julian Gill-Peterson writes at length about our tendency to see trans children as "a means to some abstract end," rather than simply young people leading young trans lives. Children who display visible gender nonconformity are all too often made to carry hefty, and profoundly contradictory arguments, serving both as evidence that transness has "always been there," and that it's only a youthful phase.

"They're just kids!" one side shrieks, shuddering at the thought of their children being "exploited" by some worldwide political trans agenda. "We all have phases.
They're too young to possibly know!" "On the contrary!" protests the other side.
"It is precisely because they're so young that they must know! This is proof that trans adults are born this way, and know they're trans from the start!"

“You'll notice that both of these voices are speaking in the third person. There is no time, here, to consult trans children themselves, who only become a tool, a ruler by which to measure "authentic" transness.

“For the former perspective, trans childhood is treated as nothing more than a plea for attention. As increasing numbers of minors medically and socially transition, transphobes, particularly trans-exclusionary radical feminists (TERFs) have reacted violently. Endless threads on British-based mommy blogger site Mumsnet or "gender-critical feminist" forum @4th_WaveNow tell supposed "horror stories" of transitioning children, almost entirely assigned female at birth (AFAB).

“A familiar story emerges -- the transmasculine child becomes nothing more than a confused girl, led astray by a combination of "misogynistic" trans activism and a desperate need for attention. Their friends pressure them into "identifying as" a boy or a nonbinary person, and they supposedly move further and further away from their "true" self, sinking further into depression as they go.”

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@BillboardChris

Jan 23

The World Economic Forum just spent 2 minutes talking about my presence on the promenade, and even featured my Dad sign on their big screen!

Dad: A human male who protects his kids from gender ideology.

They’re talking about the backlash to LGBTQ. What they need to understand is it’s really backlash to TQ, and it has only just begun.

I always say “good things happen when you go outside,” and that proved true again today.

I’m on a mission to end child transition worldwide, one conversation at a time.

If you wish to support my campaign, I’m so thankful for your help.
billboardchris.com/donate

Here’s the link to the full session on “Protecting LGBTQI+ Lives.”

weforum.org/meetings/world…

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@BillboardChris

Jan 21

President Trump just nuked gender ideology.

Here is the full Executive Order.

Very important! The President rightly uses the word ‘sex.’ Not ‘gender.’

There are two sexes, zero genders, and infinite personalities. 🧵

It is the policy of the United States to recognize two sexes, male and female.

These sexes are not changeable and are grounded in fundamental and incontrovertible reality.

Under my direction, the Executive Branch will enforce all sex-protective laws to promote this reality, and the following definitions shall govern all Executive interpretation of and application of Federal law and administration policy:

“Sex” shall refer to an individual’s immutable biological classification as either male or female. “Sex” is not a synonym for and does not include the concept of “gender identity.”

“Women” or “woman” and “girls” or “girl” shall mean adult and juvenile human females, respectively.

“Men” or “man” and “boys” or “boy” shall mean adult and juvenile human males, respectively.

“Female” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell.

“Male” means a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell.

“Gender identity” reflects a fully internal and subjective sense of self, disconnected from biological reality and sex and existing on an infinite continuum, that does not provide a meaningful basis for identification and cannot be recognized as a replacement for sex.

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